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No. 426,035. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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liiiii UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHAN MELANDER, OF HVALMSTA, NORDINGRA, ANGERMANNLAND,. SVEDEN.

SOWING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,035, dated. April 22, 1890.

Application filed July 17, 1889. Serial No. 317,805. (Ncmodeh) Patented in Sweden September 16,1887, No. 1,327: in us r Hungary December 9, 1888,1l0. 30,589 and No. 51,119, and in Belgium February 28, 1889.110. 85,200.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHAN MELANDER, farmer, a subject of the King of Sweden, and a residentof Hvalmsta, Nordingra, Province of Angermannland, Sweden, have invented Improvements in Sowil'lg-Machines, (for which I have obtained a Swedish patent, No. 1,327, dated September 16, 1887; Austria-Hungary, Patents No. 30,589 and No. 51,119, dated December 9,1888, and a Belgium patent, No. 85,200, dated February 28, 1889,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved sowing-machine by which it is possible to save part of the quantity of cereals requisite in sowing by hand. Y At the same time it can be used simultaneously for rolling, scarifying, harrowing and dragging, and deposist all the grains at the same depth, which may be regulated at pleasure.

Figure 1 shows a plan of a sowing-machine embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a sectional View; Fig. 4, a view from beneath, and Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent details enlarged.

The machine consists of a frame support ing the feeding-roller v, located under the bottom openings of the grain-box L, the shaft of which roller 4;, projecting out of the one short end of the frame, supports a wheel H, having pins on its periphery secured on such roller and which wheel. is put in motion when the machine is drawn forward, by which the feeding-roller is caused to rotate. The frame supports, further, at its front a roller W, and at its back a drag board or coverer S, and between those, under the feeding-roller, there is a number of hollow plowshares P, through which the cereals are let down from the grain-box into furrows formed by the plowshares. At the lower part of each of such shares there is a plate 1), Fig. 6, provided with aback and having for its object or purpose to spread the grains dropping upon the same through the hollow plowshare.

The drag board or coverer S has for its purpose the filling up of the furrows made by the shares after the grains have been fed down in them, and thus no particular machine is needed for that purpose.

The feeding-roller, as usual, in its circumference has a number of indentures, in which pins are fixed, Fig. 5, which, during the rotatory motion of the roller, bring the grains down into the hollow plowshares.

Between every two adjacent bottom openings in the grain-box there is a washer or sleeve, (see F i 1,) facilitating the gliding down of the grains in the bottom openings, the size of which may be regulated by small slides or cut-offs 0', (see Fig. 3,) located on the bottom of the box, and which may be pushed over the openings for the purpose of regulating the feeding of the grains at will.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- In sowing-machines, the combination of a hopper, a feed-roller having teeth sunk in a11- nular recesses on the roller, a wheel journaled on and adapted to give motion to said roller, sliding plates for regulating the feed to the roller, plowshares provided with deflectingplates for spreading the grain, and an adj ustable drag board or coverer to cover the grain deposited in the drills, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHAN MELANDER. Witnesses:

ISRAEL BRANDELL, LEoP. DYBERG. 

